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Claude Debussy Quotes



Quotes by Claude Debussy - (5 quotes)

Claude Debussy - From the Audience category:

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen. (Claude Debussy)

Claude Debussy - From the Deception category:

Art is the most beautiful of all lies. (Claude Debussy)

Claude Debussy - From the Emotion category:

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. (Claude Debussy)

Claude Debussy - From the Music category:

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. (Claude Debussy)

Claude Debussy - From the Understanding category:

-on analyzing his music...
When you take the wings off a butterfly, it's no longer a butterfly. (Claude Debussy)